Specifications of NVIDIA's upcoming high-end graphics card, the GeForce GTX Titan, which were reported in the press over the last couple of weeks, are bang on target, according to a specs sheet leaked by 3DCenter.org, which is allegedly part of the card's press-deck. According to the specs sheet, the GTX Titan indeed features 2,688 out of the 2,880 CUDA cores present on the GK110 silicon, 6 GB of GDDR5 memory across a 384-bit wide memory interface, and draws power from a combination of 6-pin and 8-pin PCIe power connectors.

The GeForce GTX Titan core is clocked at 837 MHz, with a GPU Boost frequency of 876 MHz, and 6.00 GHz memory, churning out 288 GB/s of memory bandwidth. The chip features a single-precision floating-point performance figure of 4.5 TFLOP/s, and 1.3 TFLOP/s double-precision. Despite its hefty specs that include a 7.1 billion-transistor ASIC and 24 GDDR5 memory chips, NVIDIA rates the card's TDP at just 250W.

More slides and benchmark figures follow.

The next slide leaked by the source reveals key features of the reference design cooling solution, which uses a large lateral blower that features RPM and voltage-based speed control on the software side, a vapor-chamber plate that draws heat from the GPU, memory, and VRM; and an extended aluminum fin stack that increases surface area of dissipation.

Next up, we have performance numbers by NVIDIA. In the first slide, we see the GTX Titan pitted against the GTX 680, in Crysis 3. The GTX Titan is shown to deliver about 29 percent higher frame-rates, while being a tiny bit quieter than the GTX 680.

In the second slide, we see three GeForce GTX Titans (3-way SLI) pitted against a pair of GeForce GTX 690 dual-GPU cards (quad-SLI). In every test, the Titan trio is shown to be faster than GTX 690 Quad-SLI. In Crysis 3, GTX Titan 3-way SLI is shown to be about 75 percent faster; 100 percent faster in Max Payne 3, 40 percent faster in TESV: Skyrim, and 95 percent faster in Far Cry 3. Why this comparison matters for NVIDIA is that if Titan does end up being a $1000 product, NVIDIA will have to sell three of them while offering something significantly better than GTX 690 quad-SLI.

For the price to performance ratio I will be hoping that once prices normalize the card would be around $700-750. If its anymore than that I don't know if anyone will really bother buying it apart from people with heaps of money to blow on the best hardware.

@renz496: Well... since this is Nvidia we're talking about you can bet that it will be totally crippled... The other question is of course what happens if you put a Tesla vbios on that thing. Most likely won't work either.

What about DP? I'm sure that is still being crippled, otherwise it seriously dilutes the price/performance of the K20.

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Well, FP64 = Double precision.
I'm also going by the available information in the leak.
As for diluting the K20/K6000, that has usually been the case of artificially limiting FP64 performance in gaming cards. Maybe the Titan is a special case- if so, and the user requires FP64 but has no need of ECC memory or pro drivers and 24/7 support, then the Titan makes an attractive alternative to a $3K Tesla K20 or $4.5K K20X

I don't have to spell it out,... remember the EVGA GTX670 FTW SIG2, GPU-Z screen shot, something never got released and you had it and it hasn't been released so i guess it will come out with Titan, instead they gave us a higher version, than what you had.